The goal of this dissertation was to understand how changes in sleep influence memory performance in healthy older adults. Previous research suggests that older individuals experience parallel declines in sleep and episodic ...

Assortative mating occurs when there is a correlation (positive or negative) between male and female phenotypes or genotypes across mated pairs. To determine the typical strength and direction of assortative mating in ...

Modern parser generators typically require two components: an abstract syntax data structure and a concrete syntax grammar specification. Usually the abstract syntax and the concrete syntax are closely related but are ...

We have used high-cadence radial velocity measurements from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope with published velocities from the Lick 3 m Shane Telescope, combined with astrometric data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Fine ...

Numerous astrophysical sources of radiation affect the environment of planets orbiting within the liquid-water habitable zone of main-sequence stars. This dissertation reaches a number of conclusions about the ionizing ...

Extracting high-performance from Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs) requires that the application be parallelized i.e., divided into threads which execute concurrently on multiple cores. To save programmer effort, difficult to ...

The iridoids are a large family of monoterpenoid natural products that possess a wide range of biological activities. A great deal of research has already been done in the field of iridoid total synthesis, but limitations ...

The nonlinear propagation of electromagnetic waves in pair plasmas, in which the electrostatic potential plays a very important but subdominant role of a "binding glue" is investigated. Several mechanisms for structure ...

When a writer, usually a woman, uses fairy tales as a veil through which to narrate a story of her life, I call this practice asymptotic autobiography. In mathematics, the asymptote is a straight line that a curve approaches ...